“In our career right now, we’re taking the places we feel artistically are most fulfilling and the most pleasant experience for us,” Han says. “Savannah certainly fills that.”

The trio formed after recording the Mendelssohn Piano Trios. “It’s a great recording, if I must say so myself,” Han says.

“David and Phil have been playing together for five years (in the Emerson String Quartet),” she says. “There is an unspoken musical language that is very hard to acquire until you have an incredibly long relationship, like a really good old marriage.

“We actually never really intended to form a trio, but enjoyed playing together,” Han says. “The record sounded so good, a lot of agents started calling.”

The trio has been together now for three seasons. It was music that drew Finckel and Han together in the first place, so performing together is a joy.

“We’re both mature enough,” Han says. “We never dare go into a rehearsal session thinking about who did the dishes last night.

“We schedule our rehearsals rigorously and turn into professional musicians. We both have very rigorous attitudes.”

The couple has a teenage daughter, Lilian, who has inherited their talent. “But she claims she does not want to be a musician,” Han says.

“She’s incredibly talented. That sounds like a mom and I am, but she’s fantastic, a great kid who enjoys music.

“I wish all parents would give their kids this wonderful art form,” Han says. “It’s a wonderful companion. If she goes through a hard time, music will be an inspiration and comfort for her.”

In addition to performing, Finckel and Han are educators. “It’s part of getting old,” she says. “There are times when you really feel that you want to pass down the knowledge you acquire in your life.

“I also have an incredible amount of satisfaction and joy in watching younger people develop or learn or make a mark in the world for themselves,” Han says. “That’s a very different type of satisfaction from playing.”

Teaching provides a legacy. “I want to make sure when Lilian is grown up, this incredible art form still flourishes,” Han says. “You have to have someone carrying the torch forward.”

Not only do Finckel and Han attend many music festivals, they head up a few of their own. “Festivals are the place where you have different relationships with the audience,” Han says.

“This lasts for an extended period of time. A festival is a place where you can immerse yourself in something.

“The festival format is the most powerful,” Han says. “It’s not just that on Tuesday night you go to a concert and go back to your regular life. At a festival, your form a relationship with an art form and walk away a different person.”

Festivals are the most rewarding experiences in performing, Wu says. “It’s a celebration. I highly recommend it for any audience.”

Han was 9 when she began studying music.

“I was very late,” she says. “Taiwan didn’t have much classical music.

“My father was a policeman. He picked up a stack of recordings and a turntable at a flea market and fell madly in love with the music and decided we all had to learn how to play.”

Music is not just for the rich, Han says. “When somebody tells me classical music is for the elite, I just laugh, because that’s just totally untrue.

“We came from a very poor background, but the music spoke so beautifully to my parents, who had zero musical education,” Han says. “Music touched their hearts.

“If anybody tells me music is for the rich or privileged, that’s the most ridiculous thing. I’m living proof of it.

“You can’t possibly fall in love with music as a musician,” Han says. “It takes work to master an instrument and enjoy making music. There is no instant gratification.”

With no musical background to guide her, music lessons were hard work for Han. “But after a while, you learn the craft and realize the fruit of hard work,” she says. “Something develops and it’s so fabulous, it makes you a different type of person.”

Music certainly changed Han’s life. “Once I realized I could actually make music, it was like making magic.

“It was so rewarding and so fascinating, I just loved it. To know that I could make a statement and change people’s hearts every day was so powerful. I have one of the most blessed jobs anybody could imagine.”